For scrappy, trying-to-improve-matters-from-within, no holds barred, troll your workmates, shout-your-rage corporate blogs, I don’t think you need to look further than the excellent Mozilla blogs – especially the ongoing (productive) spats between the Chimera developers and their colleagues. Compare that to all the nicey-nicey community stuff from those Macromedia guys. Once seems to be just a question of keeping the consumers happy. The other serves the function of keeping them informed with what’s really going on. Plus the Mozilla guys’ blogs seems to be spilling off into blog-friendly Mozilla adaptions, like in-browser RSS viewing and HTML editing.
Hope they don’t get sacked.
Aiieee. Dave linked here, even though this is essentially my “pfft-pfft. Is this thing on?” test site.
What’s particularly frustrating is that last night, I dreamt this spectacular four thousand word piece that would explain once and for all the relation of blogs to journalists, the nature of flash crowds, and what lessons Corrupt Bloggers can learn from Corrupt Journalism before it’s too late.
But unlike you, I’m only a theoretical blogger, and while Eric S. Raymond will write a megabyte of distilled opinion before he gets up and shoots his breakfast, it still takes me a week to think enough thoughts to spit out even a hundred words.
I’ll save it all for that guest DaveNet I drunkenly promised Dave. Yes, yes, that is what I will do. Straight after panicking about next week’s Extreme Computing Conference in London . And doing whatever it is I get paid for.
In the mean time, here is who I currently read when I’m avoiding writing: Seth from the EFF, and Leonard from robotfindskitten, and Quinn from my life, and Lee from NTK, and everybody from Advogato. Smarter than you and I, thank God.